Voting for 69 seats in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections is underway.

Voting for 69 seats in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections began on Sunday amid tight security.

The third phase will be a litmus test for the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP), specially Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, since most seats were held by the party in 2012 and are in the Yadav pocket boroughs.

Heavy security deployment has been made across the 12 districts where polling began. Sensitive polling stations marked by the Election Commission (EC) are being monitored online, an Election Commission official said.

Here are 10 important facts about the third phase of UP Assembly elections: